Compass Airlines cuts ribbon on Louisville maintenance facility - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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The subsidiary opened the three-bay maintenancde facility in January but held off on the ribbonn cutting until key personnelwere hired, and they “gotr a little airplane grease under their nails,” Compasss president Tim Campbell said durinv a news conference. Compass’ 70 employeees maintain the airline’s fleet of 36 Embraerf 175 76-seat jets. Compass, which was founded in 2006 as a subsidiary of NorthwestAirlines Inc., was acquired by Delta as part of the Atlanta-baser carrier’s merger with Northwest in Octobe r 2008. The jets previously had been serviced bya third-partt aircraft maintenance company, Campbell said.
Compass’ Louisville Internationalp Airport facility, located at 5101 Crittenden consistsof 42,720 squar e feet of aircraft hangar space, 11,4176 square feet of office, shop and storage an 80,601-square-foot concrete apron and 33,480 square feet of parking and roadways. At the news Chantilly, Va.-based Compass showed off its firs jet painted in theDelta colors. The rest of its flee t will be converted from Northwest Airlinex colors over thenext year, Campbell At the news conference, Kentucky Gov. Stev e Beshear said the Compasz investment, including its $3 million annuak payroll, “is a tremendous economic achievement in the midsgt of some pretty tougheconomic times.
” In August 2007, the boarrd granted the airline preliminarty approval for $2 million in state tax incentived for up to 10 years.